Episodes 99
Avg. Duration 1h 14m
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Since Jul 2012
Latest Episode Aug 2025

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Greg, Mark and Richard get together weekly and talk about things of interest in the Java community. Greg works for SimWorks (http://www.simworks.com) who specialize in mobile phone software. Mark works for SecureMX (www.smx.co.nz). Richard works for Blue Train Software (http://www.bluetrainsoftware.com)

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Aug 27, 2025 1h 13m

C++ Three Cool Things in C++26: Safety, Reflection & std::execution - Herb Sutter - C++ on Sea 2025 Java Java 25 to be released September 16 New Features in Java 25 | Baeldung Primitive Types…

178: Java 22 Released! And I Am The Technical Debt

Mar 25, 2024 1h 4m

Last week, Greg and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Andres Almiray from Oracle to discuss this week's release of Java 22. I was hoping to get this episode out sooner but ended up fighting it…

S1E177 New Year, Old Year? What Year!?!

Dec 29, 2023 1h 12m

It's been a long time (again) between recording/discussions, but finally, for the end of the year, we locked some time to record. Java 9 Outdated Ideas About Java - Azul | Better Java Performance,…

176 - Better Late Than Never?

Sep 04, 2023 1h 8m

Non-tech Music Banter An Updated Look At Concert Merchandise Sales & Trends in 2022 Why Venues Take Merch Cuts The Taylor Swift Economy: The largest music tour in history is a hospitality…

175: 18 And Life...

Aug 21, 2022 1h 13m

Episode 175 - 18 And Life Until last week, I was going to open the show saying it's been a long time since we last recorded, but we slipped in an interview with the guys from plz.review - so that's…

Episode 174: plz.review

Jul 19, 2022 51m

Reddit Post: Improving on the GitHub code review comment experience : programming Blog Post: Bit Complete Blog: Improving on the GitHub code review comment experience | Bit Complete Inc. YouTube…

173: The Red Zone

Feb 17, 2022 54m

Catchups Happy New Year! Log4j Issues, fall out, ranty commentary And now PostgreSQL JDBC gets a 9.8 CVE: Java Stuff Java 18 set for March 22, 2022 The new features in Java 18 Mark Reinhold:…

172: Separating The Release From The Build

Nov 15, 2021 1h 19m

Once again it's been a long time coming between episodes, Auckland's recent extended Covid lock down and Mark's unscheduled and temporary relocation meant we missed out on discussion the release of…

171: Breaking (up) The Build

Mar 19, 2021 1h 45m

In an unprecedented show of activity - merely two weeks after the new years first episode (170) Mark and Greg are back, this time joined by Andres Almiray (Oracle) and Stephen Connolly (Cloudbees) to…

170: The UI is Broken!

Mar 07, 2021 1h 21m

Illegal Argument Episode 170 Mark and Greg emerge from their 2020/2021 Christmas/New Year breaks, and temporary Level 3 lock down to break their silence, attempt to remember how to podcast, and…

Don't Tweet Non Truths

Nov 30, 2020 1h 54m

OpenJDK · GitHub Plans for optimal performance: why CircleCI is changing our pricing model - CircleCI Standalone Nashorn is coming for Java 15+ Jbang Property-based Testing in Java: Jqwik -…

The Greg Cast

Sep 12, 2020 1h 17m

Welcome to The Greg Cast The Virtual World Podcast On The Metal Podcast JavaZone 2020 Ron Pressler: Scalable Harmonious Concurrency for the Java Platform Virtual Threads Async / Await Why…

The Joy of Java

Jul 02, 2020 1h 5m

After a lockdown/reopen period we're back with another argument. WARNING: The recording dropped out half way thru, and… creative edits were made. Your ears have been warned. Java 15 Ramp Down Second…

Technical Writing

May 17, 2020 1h 7m

What's this? Another Illegal Argument episode already? And so close to the last one - it seems the shift to working from home and remote recording has already showed a payoff. During the last…

Illegal Argument - Episode 165

Apr 23, 2020 1h 10m

Welcome to the "Locked Down Dependencies" remote recorded using Squadcast.fm whilst both Greg and I are stuck in a national COVID-19 lockdown. Full links to topics discussed can be found in the…

Episode 164 - Moments before Isolation

Mar 16, 2020 59m

Welcome to the first episode of 2020 - recorded just before all of Coronavirus Mania and then promptly the editing and publishing got unfortunately thrown to the sidelines for a week. This week (ha)…

163: The Continuation

Dec 22, 2019 47m

Topics Fibre's are dead - long live "Virtual Threads" Undelimited continuations are not functions R2DBC 0.8.0 goes GA - Reactive database clients for Java RUST: Shipping a compiler every 6 weeks …

162. A Conservative JDK/Java Migration Path

Nov 24, 2019 39m

CppCon 2018: Thoughts on a more powerful and simpler C++ (5 of N) - Herb Sutter Resources for writing modern Java Java 8 adoption process Conservative migration Build under new JDK Deploy on JDK…

Illegal Argument: Episode 161

Apr 08, 2019 1h 5m

00:00:00: Intro 00:01:25: Java 12 Is Upon Us 39 New Features (and APIs) in JDK 12 Mapping With Switch Expressions 00:12:31: Supporting Multiple JVM Versions In Libraries Apache Maven Compiler…

Episode 160

Mar 30, 2019 1h 1m

00:00:00: Intro 00:02:37: Java 11 Is Here Java 11 Released 00:07:22: JEP 342: The JVM and Spectre 00:10:42: Chrome Blocking Add Blockers Google Chrome could soon kill off most ad-blocker…

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